CRANKY


Meaning of CRANKY in English

1.

If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as ~, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange. (INFORMAL)

Vegetarianism has shed its ~ image...

= eccentric

ADJ disapproval

2.

Cranky means bad-tempered. (AM INFORMAL)

It was a long trek, and Jack and I both started to get ~ after about ten minutes.

= ratty

ADJ

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